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Title	[Julia Hill Gunn at Naval Training School gate, 1945]
Date	1945
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Navy--WAVES
Item description	Julia Hill Gunn (right) and a fellow WAVE pose beside the sign indicating the "U.S. Naval Training School (W-R) Main Gate" at Hunter College in 1945. Both women wear short-sleeved uniforms with navy blue ties and "S" armbands.
Veteran's name	Gunn, Julia Hill
Veteran's biography	Julia Hill Gunn of Lexington, North Carolina, was an aerographer's mate in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1945 to 1947 . Julia H. Gunn was born in Lexington, North Carolina, and graduated from the high school department at Montreat College in Montreat, North Carolina. In 1941 she enrolled at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and graduated in 1945 with a degree in chemistry." Gunn joined the WAVES in June 1945 and reported to Hunter College in New York for basic training. She attended the weather school at Lakehurst, New Jersey, from September to December 1945, training as an aerographer's mate and monitoring weather patterns. In early 1946 she was transferred to Navy Weather Central and worked in the Civilian Weather Bureau Building in Washington, D.C. Gunn was discharged in the summer of 1947 . After the war, Gunn did analytical chemistry work in the agronomy lab at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1948 she married Larry Gunn. Throughout the 1950s she worked primarily in tax preparation, managing several H&R Block branches in the Greensboro area.
Place	New York (N.Y.)
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Full uniform
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0060 Julia Hill Gunn Papers
Collection summary	1999 oral history interview, photographs, and correspondence.
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0060.6.003
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number	900810772

[Julia Hill Gunn at Naval Training School gate, 1945]

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